These artists have used their art to tell their empowering and uplifting stories from across the world.
Belina Wright
United States
Belina Wright, a self-taught, Haitian-American artist, believes her ability to paint is a God given gift.
Her vibrant art is strongly influenced by her Haitian heritage. She paints people in their element, from extreme to mundane.
Her work usually depicts tall, stylized women holding baskets with grace and beauty.
Anna Masiul-Gozdecka grew up in what she describes as "grey, melancholic" communist Poland and found an artistic escape and inspiration in scientist Maria Sklodowska-Curie., writer Isabel Allende, Frida Kahlo, and Polish artists, Teresa Pągowska and Maria Jarema. Anna is a mother and teacher who often organizes events to empower women.
Pegah’s paintings weave contemporary and Qajari elements together to create a combination of cultures. Her artwork represents a universe conflicted with the traditional world. Pegah’s dynamic art has been included in many of Tehran’s group exhibitions, as well as recent representation in Paris taking Pegah global.
Corina Hazlett
New Zealand
Corina Hazlett, an art therapist and teacher, works to create a safe space for women to explore their own identities so that they can also have a voice through art. She has worked with young girls in the Child Cancer Foundation during chemotherapy, incarcerated women at the Christchurch Women's Prison, and an organization providing care to women rescued from human trafficking in Vietnam. She is inspired by the work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, and the actions of New Zealand Suffragette Kate Sheppard.